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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cellar
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coal cellar
salt cellar
storm cellar
wine cellar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
salt
▪ His brother Gawain ignored him, gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing.
▪ Later, in the café, we put the flag into the salt cellar and waited.
▪ A sign of taking too much salt is if you find it difficult to remove the salt cellar from the table.
wine
▪ The royal palace was splendid and reputedly contained a large wine cellar.
▪ She suggested a toast, and while he went to the wine cellar, she put the powder in her cup.
■ NOUN
bar
▪ Raffles A lounge cellar bar with a relaxed atmosphere and a real coal fire.
▪ There is a lounge, T.V. room, table tennis, cellar bar, large sauna, solarium and steam bath.
▪ There is a small cellar bar, a sun terrace, a large garden and small heated outdoor swimming pool.
▪ Downstairs is a Tyrolean-style bowling alley and cellar bar.
▪ There is a new tennis court and, new for 1992, an open air swimming pool and cellar bar.
▪ She was prevented from entering by people surfacing from the cellar bar.
coal
▪ They often drag down members of their family into their coal cellar of degradation as they fuel the fires of self destruction.
▪ Wes's greatest triumph was undoubtedly the time he removed the grating from the coal cellar outside Skeldale House.
▪ Otherwise the attic or the coal cellar had to suffice, but concealment had been the fashion.
▪ I had lights put in the coal cellar and wash house too while he was at it.
▪ It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar.
door
▪ There were three loud knocks on the cellar door.
▪ People say I mistook the cellar door for the wine closet.
▪ When they start to unpack, they find they can't get the cellar door open.
▪ He was sitting directly above the cellar door, close enough to the kitchen door to hear their angry words.
▪ Antoinette locked the cellar door and flung the key on the table.
▪ Hard draught from under cellar door.
▪ They heard a sound at the cellar door.
▪ Also in here she kept the key to the cellar door.
■ VERB
find
▪ Their collective mood had found its cellar, a malaise like a ladder they had descended rung by rung.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Down in the cellar Broadman looked up, muttered to himself, and carried on with his work.
▪ Finally, he had to hide her in a cellar.
▪ Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar.
▪ He announces that there are invisible demons in the cellar, and that they claim that the house is legally theirs.
▪ His brother Gawain ignored him, gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing.
▪ I'd like them shown into the cellar, please.
▪ She'd lain for two days on the cellar floor.
▪ There were three loud knocks on the cellar door.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cellar

Cellar \Cel"lar\, n. [OE. celer, OF. celier, F. celier, fr. L. cellarium a receptacle for food, pantry, fr. cella storeroom. See Cell.] A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cellar

early 13c., "store room," from Anglo-French celer, Old French celier "cellar, underground passage" (12c., Modern French cellier), from Latin cellarium "pantry, storeroom," literally "group of cells;" which is either directly from cella (see cell), or from noun use of neuter of adjective cellarius "pertaining to a storeroom," from cella. The sense in late Middle English gradually shifted to "underground room." Cellar door attested by 1640s.

Wiktionary
cellar

Etymology 1 n. 1 An enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter. 2 A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar. 3 (context slang English) Last place in a competition. 4 (context historical English) A small dish for holding salt. vb. (context transitive English) To store in a cellar. Etymology 2

n. salt cellar

WordNet
cellar
  1. n. the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage [syn: basement]

  2. an excavation where root vegetables are stored [syn: root cellar]

  3. storage space where wines are stored [syn: wine cellar]

Wikipedia
Cellar

Cellar may refer to:

  • Basement
  • Root cellar
  • Salt cellar
  • Semi-basement
  • Storm cellar
  • Wine cellar
  • Last place, especially in sports and similarly competitive activities

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Usage examples of "cellar".

The horrifying truth is that she was almost certainly kept captive in the cellar for several days, and regularly tortured and abused, until she was finally killed.

Indeed, it is more than likely that the first person to be suspended from the beams in the cellar of 25 Cromwell Street and sexually abused was Rosemary West herself, and that she and her husband then decided to subject other people to the experience.

For Juanita Mott became the sixth young woman in the space of just two years to be sexually abused, tortured, decapitated and finally dismembered in the cellar beneath the pavement of number 25 Cromwell Street.

One tape, in particular, featured a young girl hung up by her arms from a beam in a cellar and abused by two men, one black, one white, while she is helpless.

Fred were in the habit of sexually and sadistically abusing young girls in the cellar of their house for their joint pleasure.

Every external wall or enclosing wall of habitable rooms or their appurtenances or cellars which abuts against the earth shall be protected by materials impervious to moisture to the satisfaction of the district surveyor.

She knew Jonas had to have a human-sized alembic in the cellars, behind one of those three locked doors.

Marianna had given a big party with wine from her cellars and many different kinds of fish: from mackerel and amberjack roasted over the embers to small boiled squid, from stuffed sardines to baked sole.

She was not shown the cellar, where the Duke of the North Ridings lay bound, and she and Adrian were rushed swiftly through the back room, where the Archdeacon was looking pensively out of the window.

As soon as the daily newspapers are done with, he rips them up in geometric squares and stores them in the cellar privy so that they all can wipe their arses with I them.

He entered the next cellar and picked his way through a tumbled mass of ceiling that threw up sparks as his asbestos boots encountered it.

The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.

He had recognised the black uniform emblazoned with the twin axes as soon as the man had stepped into the cellar.

In the first place, here were the first cellar spaces discovered at Babil, oldest part of the metropolis.

They thought only of the 90,000,000 of marks banco deposited in its cellars.